The Office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business Districts (CBD) have embarked on public advocacy and sensitisation of traders, residents, visitors and business owners against street trading, parking in unauthorised places, dumping of waste and refuse on the streets and drainages and observing all the guidelines put in place by the Lagos Sate Government to flatten the curves of Covid-19.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business Districts, Gbenga Oyerinde reacting to the advocacy programme said the initiative was a measure to ensure all stakeholders operating within the business districts are carried along with the state government policies as it relates to the development of the Central Business Districts in the new year 2022.

He said the commencement of the enlightenment programme at the beginning of the new year was in view of the need to constantly remind the stakeholders operating within the business district rules and regulations of business districts especially as business activities gradually pick up after the yuletide holidays.

He noted that as the new year begins for business, there is the need to continually enlighten traders and visitors against health, traffic and environmental laws infringement. Most traders are beginning to lose consciousness of the need to obey health guidelines against the spread of coronal virus”.

The Special Adviser continued “ we have restrategize, refocused and have printed enlightenment materials to further enlighten visitors and traders within the Lagos Island and ikeja CBD axis to ensure that everyone coming to the business districts on daily basis for business and private visit are sensitize on the need to keep the business district safe and clean”.

While urging Lagosians to be safety conscious as they come to the business district to do business, the Special Adviser said CBD enforcement unit and other government agencies are fully ready to ensure that health, traffic, environmental and other security challenges associated with the high influx of shoppers and traders into the Island is curtailed and well managed.

He again called on street traders using the walkways and kerbs to display their goods and motorist parking on bridges to desist from the practice as the state will continue to impound vehicles and goods parked or displayed on walkways and kerbs.